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Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith (1915-1995) was an organic-chemist, humanitarian, lecturer and an author on young earth creationism. He also wrote books such as Man's Origin, Man's Destiny: A Critical Survey of the Principles of Evolution and Christianity, He Who Thinks Has to Believe, The Natural Sciences Know Nothing of Evolution, The Scientific Alternative to Neo-Darwinian Evolutionary Theory: Information Sources and Structures, etc.

He wrote in the Foreword to this 1970 book, "The present work is the third in a series and examines the scientific materialistic attempt at explaining life's origin and meaning. It relates some of the discoveries in the area of origins to recent progress in cybernetics and the development of artificial intelligence. Thus the book is not intended primarily for the 'average light reader' ... but for the student seriously contending with the problems presented by advanced study and their relationship to religious beliefs. In a nutshell the book treats the premises of materialistic naturalism and weights them against supranaturalism as bases for our ... view of life's meaning."

Here are some additional quotations from the book:

"We have now accounted for the spontaneous synthesis of two important types of building blocks of life---the amino acids and the sugars... Thus there is little difficulty in assuming the spontaneous synthesis of heterocyclic bases necessary to serve as building blocks for the synthesis of life from nonliving material." (Pg. 15-16)
"Theoretically and experimentally we know quite well that, under certain conditions, building blocks of the amino acids, adenine, sugar and other simple types can be formed spontaneously. These biomonomers represent, as it were, 'entropy holes' into which elements easily 'fall' if one 'knocks' (activates) them hard enough with a 'blow' of sufficient energy." (Pg. 21)
"For coded information is a form of thought. It manifests thought. Codes of any type are inconceivable on any random basis because thought is not random in its nature." (Pg. 31)
"Coding systems have never been known to arise spontaneously out of randomness, but only, in our experience, from motor intelligence." (Pg. 41)
"Nothing would need to be said about it if it were merely a private opinion of respected scientists. The rub comes when observations of this kind are seriously put before immature students as proof for the scientific materialistic view of life in general... something must be done to expose the view for what it is, even though the attempt may make an unfortunately critical impression." (Pg. 60-61)
"In summary: nature, left to herself, will tend to produce only the starting materials ... the simple building blocks. And nature, left to herself will produce death, not life; the basic decomposition or composition molecules of life rather than life's synthesis." (Pg. 102)
"The hard fact remains that all 'programming' must originate in intelligence somewhere down the line." (Pg. 113)

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith (1915-1995) in "The Creation of Life: A Cybernetic Approach to Evolution," refutes the notion of abiogenesis utilizing logic and science. He was generally known as A. E. Wilder-Smith and earned his first doctorate in physical organic chemistry at Reading University in 1941 along with his second doctorate and then a third doctorate from the ETH in Switzerland. He went on to become a professor of pharmacology at the University of Illinois Medical Center. He was detested by evolutionary scientists and the secular media.

In this technical but very readable volume Wilder-Smith discusses:

- Consequences of Biochemical Predestination
- Culbertson's work
- Brain function and consciousness
- How to find patterns that reflect intelligent design
- Biological codes require a Code-giver
- And more.

This is a fine book for the astute student or vigorous apologist.

Other works by this triple earned doctorate professor:

- The Scientific Alternative to Neo-Darwinian Evolutionary Theory
- The Natural Sciences Know Nothing of Evolution
- Man's Origin/Man's Destiny
- He Who Thinks Has To Believe
- The Time Dimension
- And additional books.
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"The Creation of Life: A Cybernetic Approach to Evolution" is not a good introductory volume, but is a lower mid-level scientific apologetic resource.
see the book that demonstrates the existence of God by employing moral absolutes:
There Are Moral Absolutes: How to Be Absolutely Sure That Christianity Alone Supplies
or
Letter to an Atheist Nation: Presupositional Apologetics Responds To: Letter to a Christian

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith (1915-1995) in "The Creation of Life: A Cybernetic Approach to Evolution," refutes the notion of abiogenesis utilizing logic and science. He was generally known as A. E. Wilder-Smith and earned his first doctorate in physical organic chemistry at Reading University in 1941 along with his second doctorate and then a third doctorate from the ETH in Switzerland. He went on to become a professor of pharmacology at the University of Illinois Medical Center. He was detested by evolutionary scientists and the secular media.

In this technical but very readable volume Wilder-Smith discusses:

- Consequences of Biochemical Predestination
- Culbertson's work
- Brain function and consciousness
- How to find patterns that reflect intelligent design
- Biological codes require a Code-giver
- And more.

This is a fine book for the astute student or vigorous apologist.

Other works by this triple earned doctorate professor:

- The Scientific Alternative to Neo-Darwinian Evolutionary Theory
- The Natural Sciences Know Nothing of Evolution
- Man's Origin/Man's Destiny
- He Who Thinks Has To Believe
- The Time Dimension
- And additional books.
-
"The Creation of Life: A Cybernetic Approach to Evolution" is not a good introductory volume, but is a lower mid-level scientific apologetic resource.
There Are Moral Absolutes: How to Be Absolutely Sure That Christianity Alone Supplies
God Does Exist!: Defending the faith using presuppositional apologetics, evidence, and the impossibility of the contrary